Pitching & Throwing - Knee To Knee

How do we maximize the power in our lower half to maximize our throwing potential while minimizing the strain on our throwing arm? Roy Halladay explains the benefit of knee-to-knee in the pitching motion to make sure your weight is loaded on your backside before beginning your motion towards home plate.Hi, I'm Roy Halladay with insidebaseball.com. Today, we're going to talk about knee to knee. Knee to knee is basically a phrase for loading a load position as a pitcher. One of the key things that a lot of pitchers lose is their lower half of their leg strength when pitching. One of the keys to it, one of the easy ways to go about getting that back is going knee to knee. Now, what I'm talking about is I want to bring my front knee even with my back knee when I load. So out of a stretch, I'm coming here, loading up my backside. If I just lift that leg straight up and go, my lower have opens up-- I lose all my lower half power, strength, everything is gone. So I'm going to go knee to knee, load that back side and drive. It's the same thing out of the wind up. When I'm going out of the wind up, you go over your head, it doesn't matter. When I get here, I got to get my knee back to my knee. Otherwise, my backside never gets loaded. If I get here, straight up, and open-- my lower half opens-- I lose my backside strength. So knee to knee is very important. It's very simple. It's something that you can feel, you can see and do it in front of the mirror. And it will guarantee to get you on your backside-- get that power out of your lower half. I'm Roy Halladay and that's knee to knee.

How do we maximize the power in our lower half to maximize our throwing potential while minimizing the strain on our throwing arm? Roy Halladay explains the benefit of knee-to-knee in the pitching motion to make sure your weight is loaded on your backside before beginning your motion towards home plate. This is especially important when dealing with the stretch, where you are trying to be fast to the plate yet still deliver an effective pitch with maximum velocity and movement.

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Harry Leroy "Roy" Halladay, nicknamed "Doc", is a former professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies between 1998 and 2013. His nickname, coined by Toronto Blue Jays announcer Tom Cheek, is a reference to Wild West gunslinger "Doc" Holliday.
He was the Blue Jays' first draft selection in the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft, the 17th pick overall, and played for the team from 1998 through 2009, after which he was traded to Philadelphia. Halladay is known for his ability to pitch deep into games effectively and, at the time of his retirement, was the current active major league leader in complete games with 67, including 20 shutouts.
On May 29, 2010, Halladay pitched the 20th perfect game in MLB history, beating the Florida Marlins by a score of 1–0. On October 6, 2010, in his first post-season start, Halladay threw the second no-hitter in MLB postseason history (Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series being the first) against the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of the 2010 NLDS. It was his second no-hitter of the year (following the May 29 perfect game), making Halladay the fifth pitcher in major league history (and the first since Nolan Ryan in 1973) to throw multiple no-hitters in the same season. During the 2012 season, he became the 67th pitcher to record 2,000 strikeouts. Halladay is also one of only five pitchers in MLB history to win the Cy Young Award in both the American and National Leagues. More Videos of Roy Halladay